Hey, that's what we need to get out of this slump -- another war! Why hasn't anyone ever thought of that before? Do there happen to be any antagonistic countries in the Middle East that might make good opponents?

I have to pay for calls that come in on my phone. This election year I have been getting 20+ calls per day from political parties. This is literally the most number of bullshiat calls I have ever gotten in my entire life. I had to disconnect my answering machine because they were costing me about $100 a month in phone bills.

rabidarmadillo24:Ah yes. Just imagine all caviar, champagne, and snuff porn that money could have bought for the oligarchs that funded these super PACs.

The best part is that a very small number of people have given a very large sum of money to Romney, and when he loses it will all be for naught. It will only demonstrate how foolish they are with their money.

Freely give a fark-ton of your money so ideologues can get into office and fark things up for most people = Good.

Have your massive income taxed at a slightly higher percentage for the good of humanity = Worst. Thing. Ever.

vodka:I have to pay for calls that come in on my phone. This election year I have been getting 20+ calls per day from political parties. This is literally the most number of bullshiat calls I have ever gotten in my entire life. I had to disconnect my answering machine because they were costing me about $100 a month in phone bills.

Indubitably:rabidarmadillo24: Indubitably: ultraholland: Indubitably: How about you spend that on affordable housing and local, organic food for people?

No shiat; imagine all of the actual good that could come from that money.

Seriously.

Ah yes. Just imagine all caviar, champagne, and snuff porn that money could have bought for the oligarchs that funded these super PACs.

Your radar is broken.

The point I'm trying to make is that realistically this money would have sat in their accounts gathering dust, rather than creating jobs. This brings me to a very difficult crossroad in my life, because I've always been against the citizens united ruling. I fear my head may implode.

rabidarmadillo24:Indubitably: rabidarmadillo24: Indubitably: ultraholland: Indubitably: How about you spend that on affordable housing and local, organic food for people?

No shiat; imagine all of the actual good that could come from that money.

Seriously.

Ah yes. Just imagine all caviar, champagne, and snuff porn that money could have bought for the oligarchs that funded these super PACs.

Your radar is broken.

The point I'm trying to make is that realistically this money would have sat in their accounts gathering dust, rather than creating jobs. This brings me to a very difficult crossroad in my life, because I've always been against the citizens united ruling. I fear my head may implode.

"I've never met a rich man who created jobs, but I have met large men who made lives; I wish we could ALL meet beneficence equally, regardless of who we meet or don't..."

It would be cool if unlimited money votes for the super-rich were counterproductive and all that spending was actually undermining the Republican, Conservative and Plutocratic camps.

It would be really cool, Shakespearean in fact:

'Tis the very sport to see, the engineer, hoist with his own petard."

Baldrick (actor Tony Robinson) explained that saying in one of the TV shows he did but I already knew the explanation. Nonetheless, the visual aids were welcome. I like him. He reads a lot of Terry Pratchett novels on talking books. He's cool.

vodka:I have to pay for calls that come in on my phone. This election year I have been getting 20+ calls per day from political parties. This is literally the most number of bullshiat calls I have ever gotten in my entire life. I had to disconnect my answering machine because they were costing me about $100 a month in phone bills.

Can I send a bill to these farking jackholes for calling me so much?

1) Voter registration lists are a matter of public record. I have access to the name, address, age, party affiliation, gender, voting history, and other data about every registered voter living in my city.2) You DO NOT have to provide a phone number when you register to vote.

I hate seeing people respond to negative, completely f--king BS ads. To the point where they simply refuse to listen to reason, even if three months ago they would have. Because IN THEIR GUT, which has more nerve endings than their brain, they KNOW THEY'RE RIGHT. Of course.

Thankfully I am now out of the persuade idiots game and just into the helping disenfranchised folks find their polling place / get a ride / get an absentee ballot game.

I will still be really f--king glad when November 7th rolls around.

/not making election bank//I could, and have, but I like my soul just a bit too much///and health care from an employer that's still gonna be around the day after elections are over

/the junk mail for the election fell off drastically after I sent my ballot in, anyway.

That works assuming that the campaigns are getting updates from the Registrar of Voters on who has returned ballots. We remove people from our lists as they vote, but if the Registrar doesn't make that info available, or campaigns are working from a static list, it would continue.

GWSuperfan:themindiswatching: GWSuperfan: I see an easy solution to your problem.

Vote early?

/the junk mail for the election fell off drastically after I sent my ballot in, anyway.

That works assuming that the campaigns are getting updates from the Registrar of Voters on who has returned ballots. We remove people from our lists as they vote, but if the Registrar doesn't make that info available, or campaigns are working from a static list, it would continue.

All the junk mail is campaigns that I'd rather waste money on me (since I'm registered independent and apparently the Republicans have more money to burn.. I've only gotten Dem related stuff from groups I donate money to endorsing people). So I'm not turning in my absentee until next week.

Yeah, yeah, I'm hitting them for like 20 cents each, and tossing every one in the recycle bin right after, but it's the principle dammit. Although considering how much mail Moroun has sent our house he probably dropped $5 on all the printing and postage and fancy touches and irregular sizes and extra postage for that... god I hate that Mr Burns SOB.

/$31 million dollars. That jackass has spent $31 million dollars on one ballot initiative. And you know what? It's gonna be money well spent. For him. Not the state, we're going to be f--ked again.

vodka:I have to pay for calls that come in on my phone. This election year I have been getting 20+ calls per day from political parties. This is literally the most number of bullshiat calls I have ever gotten in my entire life. I had to disconnect my answering machine because they were costing me about $100 a month in phone bills.

whidbey:ArcadianRefugee: Ah, the old "people should spend their money on things I think are good.

Yes because "affordable housing and local, organic food for people" is pure shiat and should be avoided.

Affordable housing, sure, but the whole "local organic food thing"? Meh. Food is food. People who need food don't really give a fark if it is local or not.

themindiswatching:I think people not starving or dying of preventable/curable ailments is a good thing, you farking sociopath.

I see your point, but you obviously didn't see mine. It is their money to spend as they will. The whine "but they could have spent it on [insert your favorite thing here]" doesn't hold water. Never has, never will.

Hey, that's what we need to get out of this slump -- another war! Why hasn't anyone ever thought of that before? Do there happen to be any antagonistic countries in the Middle East that might make good opponents?

/Oh yeah, that one. Hmm, that one too. That other one? Sure, why not.

If we could invade Greece and shut down Golden Dawn before they foment the resurgence of fascism in Europe, I wouldn't mind too much.

ArcadianRefugee:whidbey: ArcadianRefugee: Ah, the old "people should spend their money on things I think are good.

Yes because "affordable housing and local, organic food for people" is pure shiat and should be avoided.

Affordable housing, sure, but the whole "local organic food thing"? Meh. Food is food. People who need food don't really give a fark if it is local or not.

themindiswatching:I think people not starving or dying of preventable/curable ailments is a good thing, you farking sociopath.

I see your point, but you obviously didn't see mine. It is their money to spend as they will. The whine "but they could have spent it on [insert your favorite thing here]" doesn't hold water. Never has, never will.

Excep that is never the whole story, it's just the dumbass narrative that loser-ass idiot dogshiat conservatives like to use so that they can live like parasites on society while never contributing anything.

vodka:I have to pay for calls that come in on my phone. This election year I have been getting 20+ calls per day from political parties. This is literally the most number of bullshiat calls I have ever gotten in my entire life. I had to disconnect my answering machine because they were costing me about $100 a month in phone bills.

Can I send a bill to these farking jackholes for calling me so much?

I constantly get mailings encouraging me to sign up for Medicare. Fark: I'm 43.

Of course they don't cost me anything except the energy required to throw them away.

I am still waiting for some online genius to notice that the media and polling outfits make their living off making sure the election is close. They got romney back in the race to make sure they could make more money

Baldrick (actor Tony Robinson) explained that saying in one of the TV shows he did but I already knew the explanation. Nonetheless, the visual aids were welcome. I like him. He reads a lot of Terry Pratchett novels on talking books. He's cool.

Before you wax too lyrical about Baldrick, you need to inspect his family tree

HumanBeingsSuck:Gyrfalcon: Kind of. Like eating Taco Bell, it does matter if your bowels are moving if they're moving because you ate a Burrito Supreme, you know?

Sounds better than starving to death.

Again, kind of. If you eat too many of those bowel-movement-inducing Burrito Supremes, you can't take in enough calories to make up for what gets flushed out of your colon. Starvation by burrito is not a great way to go.

whidbey:ArcadianRefugee: People who need food don't really give a fark if it is local or not.

is what you actually said, and that pretty much covers all of us.

Oh, be a pedant why don't ya?

Price, nutrition, and even taste all seem to me to be things people consider before they think "did this grow locally?", especially when they aren't rolling in money. If you'd said "affordable housing and affordable, nutritious food" I couldn't argue with you, but when money's an issue I really don't think most people would think "Is this organic?" That seems to me to be something pretty low on the list of concerns.

But hey, shout "ignorance" without bothering to, I dunno, show me why I am wrong.